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Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
An invitation to “a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world” and an exultation at “earthly life, with its duration so short it obliges us to surpass ourselves.”
The Poetry of Reality: Robert Louis Stevenson on What Makes Life Worth Living
“The true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing.”
The Art of Divination: D.H. Lawrence on the Power of Pure Attention
“An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer.”
Henry Miller on the Secret to Growth, in Art and in Life
“The reality is always there, and it is preceded by vision. And if one keeps looking steadily the vision crystallizes into fact or deed. There is no escaping it. It doesn’t matter what route one travels.”
Einstein on the Political Power of Art
“Nothing can equal the psychological effect of real art — neither factual descriptions nor intellectual discussion.”
A Taste of How It Feels to Be Free: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on Our Inner Conflicts, the Psychology of Hopelessness, and the Path to Wholeness
“The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs. It can be approximated only to the extent that conflicts are resolved.”
Love, Music, Solitude, and How to Be More Alive: The Best of The Marginalian 2022
From Emily Dickinson to Bruce Springsteen, by way of galaxies and gardening.
How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
“It wouldn’t have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.”
The Soul-Slaking Joy and Body-Poetry of Swimming
In praise of the exquisite instrument that channels “the huge chaos of sensations — sensations of temperature, water, force, light.”
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